Motivational Quotes

Love

Learn what you are and be such.

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Love

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

10.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

12.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

13.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

14.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

18.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

25.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

26.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

32.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

44.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

45.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke